How does practice reduce dual-task interference: Integration, automatization, or just stage-shortening?

Psychological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-142

  Ruthruff, Eric ^a   Van Selst, Mark ^b   Johnston, James C ^a   Remington, Roger ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; HUMAN; LEARNING; REACTION TIME;

AUTOMATISM; HUMANS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646746841     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-004-0192-7     Document Type: Article

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